Tag Archive for 'legislation'

Texas to Outlaw Firewalls?

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Eric Wallace
on April 2, 2003
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From Register.com:

The (DMCA) Digital Millennium Copyright Act clearly isn’t enough for some people. Massachusetts and Texas are - in curious formation - considering bills that will extend it to make firewalls (among other things) illegal.

What on earth are they thinking in Austin? Tommy Williams of The Woodlands is listed as the author of SB 1116. Who is really behind this legislation? And Why?

Banning Porn URLs

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Eric Wallace
on April 1, 2003
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The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ban pornographic Internet sites with misleading addresses and computer-generated child pornography.

It’s about time. Sites like whitehouse.com and dallasnew.com are preying on innocent people who type the wrong URL.